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Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

A remote Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific, home to the Rapa Nui civilisation and the source of every surviving rongorongo object.

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This is a knowledge-graph entry: what our data records about Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and how it connects to the rest of the atlas. It does not have a full article of its own yet.

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Theories & Explanations

  • The Post-Contact Stimulus Diffusion Theory

    Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was the site of The Post-Contact Stimulus Diffusion Theory — The theory ties rongorongo's invention to the 1770 Spanish annexation ceremony held on the island, at which island chiefs reportedly marked the treaty with their own characters.

Science & Technology

  • Rongorongoin use by at least the 15th–19th centuries AD

    Rapa Nui (Easter Island) contains Rongorongo.

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